See Film “Lightworkers”, Be Like Dolly, Oppose Oligarchs
Be Like Dolly
World On Fire, Dolly Parton
Liar, liar the world’s on fire
Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down?
Fire, fire burning higher
Still got time to turn it all around
Don’t get me started on politics
Now how are we to live in a world like this
Greedy politicians, present and past
They wouldn’t know the truth
if it bit ‘em in the ass
Glacier Collapse in Nepal, Bill McKibben
Nepal Glacier Collapse
Thousands of Nepalese have died or are missing this past week due to glacier collapse (the stream mid-picture that looks like a waterfall is this recent glacier collapse). Note that 99% of the glacier remains and infinitely more damage can result if this remaining glacier collapses. Our emissions (the developed world’s) are killing these Nepalese. Rising temperatures due to worsening climate change weaken the snowpack, fill crevasses with water and thaw the bonds between ice and rock that hold these glaciers in place. “… in a world beginning to turn away from oil, the United States has become the biggest force trying to insure we keep pouring carbon into the atmosphere. If the rest of that ice is going to fall off that Nepali glacier, this will be why. … ambitious American politicians would be well-advised to get ahead of this storm. I don’t think it’s hard. The basic argument goes like this:
‘Donald Trump and the GOP are corrupt and stupid to insist that the future lies with fossil fuel. I will stop coddling Big Oil and instead start making it much easier to America to run on energy from the sun and wind. Instead of shutting down wind farms we’ll be opening them up; instead of tariffing solar panels we’ll be making it simple for Americans to stick them on the roof and balcony. This is our best chance to cut the risk and cost of catastrophe (not to mention rising insurance prices). It’s also our best chance to let Americans enjoy the plummeting energy prices that other parts of the world have begun to see. And it may be the only path we have to restoring even a little of our standing in a world that now sees us as a reckless and rogue state.’”
Dear Canada, We Hate Him Too!
Oligarchy, Prof. Paul Krugman
“… there has been a relentless push over the past 15 years to make America safe for wealthy tax evaders. And it’s obvious that this push results the growing power of these tax evaders — power that ultimately derives from their ever-growing wealth, wealth that grows even faster because they are able to get away with underpaying taxes.” We must reduce tax evasion and tax avoidance, end the offshore tax haven dodge, figure out how to tax wealth not just income and close loopholes like "carried interest" which supports private equity.
Murder Is Not Due Process
Survivor’s Guide To Earth, Matthew Cooke
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